Asking someone whose emotional states fluctuate dangerously how they feel on a subjective 5-point scale is the equivalent of asking an obviously drunk person if they’re drunk, and what they think they’d blow.
# 49 on my, 99 Life Tips – A List is: To change how you feel, you must either change
If you cannot make yourself feel a certain way by willing the feeling into existence, neither can you will the feeling out of existence, once you’re feeling it.
Going ”granular” yields analysis of your feelings with specificity. And the process of ferreting out precisely what you’re feeling, will often reveal why you’re feeling it. Oftentimes, this discovery is the insight you need to change the way you feel.
All Emotions Are Valid – All Responses Are Not. Allow everyone in your life to feel how they feel. Don’t alienate them by emotional ignorance. A firsthand story of my own journey to emotional intelligence.
Do you wake up in the morning and decide to feel bad? Ever? And, to be specific, I’m talking about
# 10 on my 99 Life Tips–A List is: Do not waste emotional energy over anything you cannot control. This